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Finding fossil man we can read of things that happened 5000 years ago in the near east ,where people first learned to write . 我们可以知道5000年前近东人最开始学习读写 but there are some parts of the word where even now people cannot write. 但是现在世界上的某些地方人们依然不会写字 The only way that they can preserve their history is to recount it as sagas –legends handed down from one generation of another. 他们能够保留历史的唯一方法就是把它们叙述成传奇代代相传 These legends are usful because they can tell us something about migrations of people who lived long ago,but none could write down what they did. 这些传说是非常有用的，因为他们能够告诉我们生活在远古时期的人们又怎样的迁移，但是他们没有人能够将这些记录下来。 Anthropologist wondered where the remote ancestors of the Polynesian peoples now living in the Pacific island came from.. 人类学家一直很好奇居住在太平洋小岛上的波利尼西亚人最初的祖先来自于何处。 The sagas of these people explain that some of them came from Indonesia about 2000 years ago 关于这部分人的传说显示这些人中的一部分来自于2000年前的印尼。 But the first people who were like ourselves lived so long ago that even their sagas ,if the had any ,are forgotten. 但是住在遥远的过去的我们的祖先，连他们的传奇都已经被遗忘了，当然如果他们有传奇的话。 so archaeologists have neither history nor legends to help them to find out where the first modern men came from. 所以考古学家们既没有历史记载也没有传说可以供他们找出最初的现代人来自于哪里 Fortunately ,however,ancient men made tools of stone ,especially flint ,because this is easier to shape than other kind. 但是，幸运的是祖先们用石头做为工具，尤其是燧石，因为他们比其他的种类更加容易定型。 They may also have used wood and skins, but these have rotted away. 他们也会用木头和兽皮，但是这些材料很快就腐烂了。 Stone dose not decay, and so the tools of long ago have remained when even the bones of the men who made them have disappeared without trace. 石头并不会腐烂，所以这些在很久以前制作的工具依然能够保留下来，即使制作他们的人们早已经灰飞烟灭了。 Why ,you may wonder, should spiders be our friends? 你一定好奇，为什么蜘蛛会是我们的朋友？ Because they destroy so many insects,and insects include some of the greatest enemies of the human race. 因为他们能够杀死很多害虫其中还包括很多人类主要的敌人。 Insects would make it impossible for us to live in the world; they would devour all our crops and kill our flocks and herd，if it were not for th